Safety catch



A. CROCE SAFETY CATCH Feb. 9, 192s. i 1,572,518

Filed 001.. 6, 1925 Chrome Patented Feb. 9, 1926.

UNITED sTATes asians AILBERT CROCE, MEMFHIS, TENNESSEE.

I SAFETY cA'ioH.

Application filediOctobcr 6,1925. Serial No. 60,859.

To all whom t mafyconccrn Be it known that I, ALBERT CROCE, a citi# zen of the United States, residing at Meinphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Safety Catch, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved safety catch which is especially, but not necessarily, designed for use in connection with articles of jewelry particularly' of the kind having the customary resilient and pivoted safety pin, and hook.

More precisely, the invention has reference to a safety catch which is more particularly adapted for use on so-called bar pins and similar articles of jewelry, the same comprising a new article of manufacture embodying` animproved hook for the free end of the pin, a retaining latch associated with the hook and pm, and a pivoted keeper cooperable with the latch.

The structural features and advantages of the improved device will becomeapparent from the following description and drawings.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same Figure 1 is a view looking at one side of the improved device and showing it mounted upon the bar of a bar pin.

Fig. 2 is a View looking at the opposite side of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross section through the bar showing the improved device in end elevation.

Fig. l is a perspective view showing the construction and arrangement of the details more plainly.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the reference character l designates the bar of the pin, and 2 designates the customary piv otally mounted safety pin carri-ed by the bar. Under ordinary circumstances a hook is car ried by the' bar and the free pointed end of the pin is engaged with this hook. Vihere expensive articles of jewelry are concerned, it is very desirable to provide an auxiliary contrivance of some kind to insure against accidental disengagement of the pin and consequently loss of the valuable.

In accordance with my idea, this end may be effectively accomplished by employing a device of the construction more plainly designatedin Fig. 4. Referring to this-iigure, it will be seen that the device comprises a hook generally indicated by the referencek character 3. -This embodies `a relatively wide bill l `and a shank 5 terminating in an attaching base 6. lf desired, the shank may be bifurcated as shown. Moreover, the bill of the hook is formed with a central groove 7.

Pivotally connected to one side of the base is a longitudinally bowed retaining latch 8 having an outset head 9 formed at its free end. This latch is of a proportion to snap into the groove '7. As before indicated, a keeper plate 10 is also pivotally mounted on the base and is located on the opposite side of the shank and this is formed at its free end with an opening 1l through which the head of the latch is adapted to pass, so that thel parts assume the relation shown in Fig. 3. y

The keeper plate is somewhat resilient and snaps over the head 9. After the pointed end of the pin 2 is engaged under the bill of the hook as shown, the latch, 8 is swung up and the headed end is snapped into the groove 7 in said bill. hen the auxiliary keep-er l0 is swung up and the opening in the free end thereof snapped over the head of the latch. ln this way the pin is positively retained engaged with the hook and accidental opening of the-latch is prevented by the keeper, and by taking these precautions in a construction of this kind, loss of ythe varticle by accidental opening of the pin is not likely. f

No doubt, those skilled in the art to which this invention relates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the same after considering the description in connection with the drawings. Moreover the features and advantages derived from a construction of this kind will be fully appreciated by them. Therefore a more lengthy description is thought unnecessary.

1While the preferred,embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it will be understood that minor changes com ing within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is l. As a new artic-le of manufacture, a safety catch for a pin comprising a hook embodying a shank, attaching means therefore, and a bill, said bill being formed with v i a groove, a latch pivotally connected with said attaching means and having its free end portion adapted to be Seated in said groove, and akeeper pivotally 'connected to said attachment means and adapted to be connected with the 'free end portion of said latch for preventing accidental displacement of the l Same.

l legi; v 2. yAs a new article of mannacture, al

end with a head, and a keeper `plate pivotally connected at its lower end to said attaching means and adapted to swing against said hook, said plate being formed at its free end with an opening for passage of the aforesaid head. f

In testimony7 whereof I'alx my signature. n

ALBERT CROCE. f 

